itertools - pairwise

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examples/iterators/pairwise.py

from itertools import izip

def pairwise(iterable):
    "s -> (s0,s1), (s2,s3), (s4, s5), ..."
    a = iter(iterable)
    return izip(a, a)

l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
for x, y in pairwise(l):
   print("{} + {} = {}".format(x, y, x + y))

# 1 + 2 = 3
# 3 + 4 = 7
# 5 + 6 = 11

Every 2 element from a list. We are using the exact same iterator object in both places of the izip() call, so very time izip() wants to return a tuple, it will fetch two elements from the same iterator.

Iterating over every two elements in a list